| Easy Appliqued Bed Linens |
From "DIY Crafts"
episode DIC-161 |
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DIY Crafts host Vicki Payne demonstrates easy ways to applique pillowcases. Materials:
Pillowcase
Silk fabric in bright colors
Bright-colored thread
Large-eye needle
Scissors
Kraft paper
Fabric marker with disappearing ink
Fusible web
Press cloth
- Draw heart designs in two different sizes on paper. Cut out the heart templates.
- Trace around the heart designs on silk fabric, using a fabric marker with disappearing ink (figure A).
- Cut out the fabric designs.
- Place the fabric heart designs on fusible web, place a press cloth over them, and press with a dry iron to bond the fusible web to the silk designs.
- Remove excess fusible web by cutting around the heart designs (figure B).
- Apply fabric glue along the back edges of the fabric hearts and glue them along the border of the pillowcase (figure C).
- Thread a large-eye needle with two different colors of thread. Bring the needle up from the back of the pillowcase and through the heart design about 1/8" from the edge, near the bottom point. Feed the needle back down through the pillowcase at the edge of the heart. Come back up through the heart design about 1/8" from the edge, approximately 1/4" from the first stitch (figure D).
- Continue stitching all the way around the heart.
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